Rallycross is essentially a timed event and even though the drivers are seen to race against each other in the qualifying heats, they are actually racing against the clock in order to record the best possible time in qualifying to make the all-important finals. In the finals it is every driver for himself and a regular race format, first past the post wins. The races were part-track and part off-road, providing excellent and entertaining close racing.

Gollop’s Peugeot 309 T16 car replaced his European Rallycross Championship winning MG Metro 6R4 BiTurbo. The Peugeot 205 Turbo 16 was designed to win World Rally Championships (and it did). The T-16 derived technology was bolted to Gollop’s 309. When European Rallycross Will Gollop announced that he would be driving a Peugeot in 1993 there were knowing nods of approval from the rallycross fraternity. The 205T16 E2 had won four titles from 1987 to 1990. However, there were questions over Gollop’s choice when details of the package that would make up his Silkolene Peugeot 309T16 ‘Supercar’ were released.

Autoglass Rallycross GP Final from Brands Hatch. The UK has a glut of entrants including Will Gollop, Barry Squibb, Rob Gibson, John Welch, Trevor Hopkins, Dermot Carnegie and Dennis Biggerstaff, all competing for the UK’s ultimate Rallycross title.

The man who must start the event as favourite, Gollop has this year clinched his first ever outright British Championship and fought long and hard against Martin Schanch in the European series too. The letter series of course ended with his big crash at Lydden and the G-Tech team worked hard rebuilding its charger into a spare body shell. In the process Will took the opportunity to make some improvements to the handling.

It’s difficult to believe that it is ten years since Rolf Nilsson emerged through the mist and rain to win the first British Rallycross Grand Prix. Difficult too, to believe the pace of technological development within rallycross during those ten years, the two wheel driven Porsche that Nilsson used to win with a decade ago may well struggle to match the fastest of the drivers in the 1991 Brands Hatch British Rallycross Grand Prix. However, ten years on, with Autoglass taking over the sponsorship and the cars going faster than ever.